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Arts & Entertainment
Portland Waterfront Blues Festival Wows this Weekend
That’s a good thing because the Oregon
Food Bank serves an estimated 20 percent
he Safeway Waterfront Blues Festi- of families throughout Oregon with emer-
val opens this week with Northwest gency food boxes, nutrition programs and
native Curtis Salgado taking the gardening help.
place Sunday of headliner Gregg Allman,
Headliners this year include Los Lobos,
who cancelled for health reasons.
Los Lonely Boys, Maceo Parker, Lee Fields
The 27th annual Safeway Waterfront & the Expressions and John Nemeth & the
Blues Festival runs July 3 - 6, at Tom Bo-Keys. Find the entire schedule of shows
McCall Waterfront Park. The biggest annual – there are 120 acts — at www.waterfront-
benefit for the Oregon Food Bank, and the bluesfest.com.
biggest blues festival West of the Mississip-
Music lovers should note that new meas-
pi River, Portland’s event is second only to ures this year include: no hard-sided
the Chicago Blues Festival.
coolers, no large blankets or tarps, no high-
backed chairs and
limited outside
beverages.
Blues fans are
allowed a soft
backpack smaller
than
16x16x8
inches, a blanket
no larger than 6x8
feet, a chair with
seat up to 12
inches off the
ground and two
factory-sealed
water bottles.
Salgado
has
toured with The
Steve
Miller
Band and sang
with Santana in
2006
before
being sidelined
Saturday headliners are funk genius Maceo Parker and soul- by Hepatitis C
and liver cancer.
singing North Carolina native Lee Fields & The Expressions
After recovering,
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he returned to recording and performing in
2008.
A special service this year is the Lions
Club Testing Unit, which will be providing
free screenings for glaucoma, hearing,
Safeway Waterfront
Blues Festival, July 3 - 6
blood pressure, and diabetes at the Health-
Net Pavilion. On-site testing for Hep C near
the stages will also be available for musi-
cians who are performing and who are
unable to get to the HealthNet Pavilion.
As in past years, entry to the festival for
the first three days, July 3, 4 and 5, is a sug-
gested donation of $10 per person per day,
but Sunday requires a special pass.
A four-day Blues Basic pass is only $60,
which includes Spectacular Sunday on July
6 plus July 3, 4 and 5. You get four days of
music, 120 acts, and save $20. A one-day
pass for Spectacular Sunday only is avail-
able for $50.
Tickets for the Sunday shows are not
available at the dock, they must be pur-
chased
in
advance
at
www.tickettomato.com.
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